This Is War! Robert Capa at Work

Posted by Hoshisato (Ealing, United Kingdom) on 20 October 2008 in Lifestyle & Culture and Portfolio.

We went to see the Robert Capa exhibition at the Barbican yesterday and were blown away by the powerful images. Quote: If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough. He certainly was close enough; too close at many times and he died with his camera in his hand after he stepped on an anti-personnel mine while covering the First Indochina War. As a first, the exhibition includes some of the Lost Negatives that were recovered from the Mexican Suitcase. Also part of the exhibition is the work of Gerda Taro who was little known to me but certainly as powerful and maybe focussing more on the suffering of war. She died at age 26 in battle when the car on which footboard she had jumped onto collided with a tank.

I would certainly recommend the exhibition if your path leads you through London before 25 January 2009. Entrance fee is £8 pp.

Of course, the subject of today's post is completely unrelated to today's photo about the contrast between a poor recycleman in hyper rich Ginza. ^_^;;

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